Monday, May 16th:
Special Schedule: SBAC Testing
Periods 5, 3, and 1 Two Hour Block Schedule for This Week
Period 3:
Go over the following questions for Act 2, Scene 2:
(Romeo starts with a soliloquy, which is when a character is
alone on stage expressing his or her innermost thoughts or feelings.)
1. In the beginning of the scene, what emotional state is Romeo
in?
Romeo is in a desperate state of not knowing whether Juliet
will return his love.
2. In the beginning of the scene, what emotional state is
Juliet in? She is full of wonder.
“O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo!?”
She wants Romeo to stop being a Montague so that they can be
together. Juliet is frightened, frustrated, stressed, despairing.
When she hears Romeo speaking, she says, “What man art thou,
that stumblest on my counsel?” She
feels curious, cautious, startled, shocked, frightened.
After she realizes it is Romeo, she says, “And the place
death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.”
This shows that Juliet cares about him, but she is also
warning him about the dangers.
(O’erperch these walls – jump over the walls. O’er means “over”. Shakespeare uses “o’er” rather than “over” because it would
cause line 66 to have eleven syllables or 5 and a half iambs, rather than ten syllables, destroying the iambic
pentameter.)
Romeo is exuberant, expansive, effusive, jubilant, madly,
passionately, insanely in love!
However, Juliet says, “At lovers’ perjuries, they say Jove laughs.
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say, ‘Ay’, and I will believe you….If thou
lov’st me, pronounce it faithfully.” Juliet is asking, “Are you playing with my
feelings?”
She is showing restraint and caution in contrast to Romeo's wild exuberance.
Romeo says, “Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow”
Juliet tells him not to swear by the inconstant moon which
is changeable and not trustworthy.
When Juliet says good night, Romeo asks, “Wilt thou leave
unsatisfied?
Her response is
“What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?”
Romeo replies, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for
mine.” (He is asking her to marry him.
Do you think Romeo actually thought
about saying this before he said it?)
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Act 2, Scene 2, pages 772 and 773:
gyves: chains or silken threads to hold the bird captive
Juliet compares Romeo to a young falcon, or a young bird and
she is the falconer who pulls her bird back with its silken threads.
At the end of Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo and Juliet are engaged to get married. (How long have they known each other?) She is going to send the
maid to see him during the day to find out the marriage plans.
Read Act 2, Scene 6
Identify the foreshadowing in Act 2, Scene 6.
These violent delights have violent ends. – Kristina
And in their
triumph die, like fire and powder
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare –
It is enough I may but call her mine.
What are the words of advice the Friar gives to Romeo and
Juliet?
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder.
Therefore, love moderately long love doth so,
Too swift arrives as tardy too slow.
Write the quotations that express what the Friar thinks
about the marriage.
1. So smile the heavens upon this holy act
That afterwards with sorrow chide us not!
(Heavens cannot smile, so it’s personification.)
Explanation:
He is asking the gods to smile upon this marriage
So that after the marriage the gods will not punish us with
sorrow.
Definition:
Friar: a
priest.
Act out Act 2, Scene 6
Amanda read the Friar’s speech
Cooper acted out and translated it into contemporary English
Yubendi read Romeo’s speech
Johan acted out and translated it into contemporary English
Ashley read Juliet’s speech
Timerica acted out and translated it into contemporary
English.
Period 1:
Assigned questions over Act 2, Scene 2:
Went over answers 1 and 2 in class.
Please finish for homework tonight. This will be due on Wednesday, May 18th.
Questions for Act 2, Scene 2:
1. What
are the different feelings Romeo and Juliet express during the balcony scene?
(Starts on page 766)
2. Who
is the more cautious of the two in the balcony scene? Romeo or Juliet? Find a
specific line or lines, which show the character’s caution.
3. Though
Act 2 is a happy act, Shakespeare at times reminds us of the threatening
background. He does this through foreshadowing – giving clues to what will
happen in the future. Identify at least two specific lines which foreshadow the
fate of the two lovers.
4. The
nurse is one of Shakespeare’s great comic characters. However, do you think the
nurse is a principled character, a person with a strong sense of right and
wrong? Or do you think the nurse is easily corrupted, someone who will do
whatever others want her to do? Find at least two passages to support your
opinion and write it.
5. The
friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he wants them to be married, but
he also has an ulterior motive. What is that motive? Find the passage in which
he reveals his motive in marrying Romeo and Juliet, and write it.
6. When
the audience knows something that a character does not know is an example of
dramatic irony. Find at least
three examples of dramatic irony in this act and write down the passages which
supports your findings.
Rewrite each passage below into contemporary English:
“Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates.
“Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear say, ‘Two may keep
counsel, putting one away!”
“…but she, good soul, had as lieve see a toad, a very toad,
as see him.”
Watched 1969 film up to Balthazar riding to Mantua to tell Romeo about Juliet's "death".
Wednesday, May 18th:
1st Period:
The following things will be due on Friday, May 20th:
Act 2 questions, which are on the blog!
Act 2 Open book test!!!!
The Act 2 Vocabulary and Literary Handout!
Review of Act 2:
Act
2, Scene 2:
Romeo
and Juliet plan to get married.
The
plan was for Juliet to send the Nurse to meet Romeo by 9 am to find out the details of
their wedding!
Act
2, Scene 3:
Romeo
asks the Friar to marry Juliet and him. The Friar is angry at Romeo for being
so fickle in love. That shows immaturity.
Jeopardy Questions:
What happened to Rosaline? Regina and Anselmo answered!
Why does the Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
Anselmo and Regina answered: The
Friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because the families might become friends
and family and stop fighting.
Act
2, Scene 4:
Dalicia answers the question what occurs in Act 2, Scene 4:
Romeo
meets the Nurse and gives her instruction about the wedding night. The nurse
will meet Romeo’s servant behind the wall where he will give her a tackled
stair to be used by Romeo to climb the wall to Juliet’s bedroom for their
wedding night.
Act
2, Scene 5:
What is Juliet doing? Dalicia answered the question:
Juliet
is waiting for the Nurse to arrive with the news about the marriage plans.
Act
2, Scene 6:
The
wedding
Read
Act 3, Scene 1:
Setting:
It is now one o’clock in the afternoon, just after Romeo and Juliet are married.
Benvolio and Mercutio are in the square. Soon Tybalt, looking for Romeo, shows
up to fight a duel with him. When Romeo shows up - freshly married to Juliet, but no one knows it except for Juliet, the Friar, the Nurse and he - Tybalt begins to taunt him,
trying to provoke him. Angry that Romeo refuses to fight, Mercutio steps in to
defend Romeo’s honor. Soon an argument starts between Mercutio and Tybalt,
erupting into a sword fight.
Why
won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
Anselmo answered: Because
Romeo would be fighting a member of his family.
Why
is Mercutio angry that Romeo won’t fight Tybalt?
Regina answered: Because
Romeo has been challenged to a duel and by not fighting Tybalt, he looks like a coward.
Finish discussing Act 3, Scene 1 on Friday.
3rd Period:
Read the Friar’s speech on page 774
This is a very important speech in that this gives
information about what will happen later on in the play.
Vocabulary:
Osier cage: cage woven of willow branches
Baleful: evil or poisonous
Mickle: great, powerful
Vocabulary Race:
Cooper, Isabel, Kristina
Virtue: behavior showing high moral standard; goodness
Virtuous: adjective form of virtue
Ashley – gave sentence for virtue
Kimberly, Kristina, Isabel
Dank: unpleasantly moist, damp and typically chilly,
Drunkard: the root word of drunkard is drunk. A drunkard is
a person who is habitually drunk. An alcoholic.
Reeling: stumbling in a kind of circle
Figurative Language:
Titan’s burning wheels: the sun god’s chariot. This is the
sun.
What time is it?
It is dawn!!!!!
The gray eyed morn smiles on the frowning night
Vocabulary:
Flecked: checkered
Revolts: rebels
Ere: before
Advances: goes forward
Dew: droplets of water which occur on the grass during the
night
Iambic Pentameter:
Shakespeare uses the word “upfill” because of iambic
pentameter! Each line in blank verse or rhymed verse has five iambs of
unstressed/stressed syllables. If
he used “fillup” it would destroy the unstressed/stressed meter.
The Friar is gathering flowers and herbs to make medicine or
physics. One type of medicine is a poultice, which is a cloth soaked in herbs.
Look at lines 8 – 11: identify the figurative language and
explain what they mean.
What is a paradox?
We come from the earth’s womb and when we die we return to
the earth’s tomb.
The earth is both the womb from which we are born and the
tomb to which we return when we die.
This is a paradox. The herbs which grow on the earth’s
bosom feeds us.
Things which are poisonous but are used with care can be
beneficial to us.
Things which are beneficial but are abused can become harmful to us.
People are like plants. Like plants, there is good and evil in all of us, but for those of us in which there is a predominance of evil, the evil will take over and like a cancer, destroy the good.
Page 780
Lent: forty days before Easter.
Mercutio is saying that the Nurse is an old moldy pie.
Act 2, Scene 4:
What is Juliet doing?
What is she waiting for?
Figurative Language:
Timerica
Allusion:
“Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw love”
Nimble: agile, quickly and easily moving
Pinioned: wings
Love should move quickly!
Read Act 3, Scene 1
Benvolio is Romeo’s best friend
Tybalt is part of the Capulet’s family. He is the enemy of
the Montagues
Tybalt hates Romeo because he crashed the Capulet party.
Tybalt challenged Romeo to a duel.
When Tybalt sees Romeo, he immediately challenges him to the
duel.
Why doesn’t Romeo want to fight Tybalt?
(Hint: where did Romeo just come from? What was he doing
just five minutes earlier – remember Act 2, Scene 6? He and Tybalt are now
legally kinsman.)
Mercutio is angry that Romeo will not defend himself and so
he defends Romeo by fighting Tybalt.
Tybalt kills Mercutio when Romeo steps between them to stop
their fighting. Romeo blocks Mercutio from moving out of the way or being able
to defend himself.
Tybalt runs away after killing Mercutio.
Tybalt runs back to the square. Why does Tybalt come back?
Maybe he is afraid of being thought a coward by running away?
Romeo fights Tybalt to avenge Mercutio’s death.
Romeo kills Tybalt.
Benvolio screams at Romeo to flee – because of the Prince’s
order.
Lady Capulet is screaming at the Prince to order the death
of Romeo. Benvolio tells his side of the story which places the blame on
Tybalt.
The Prince is related to Mercutio and he will punish those
who are responsible for Mercutio’s death.
Why doesn’t the Prince order the execution of Romeo?
Who started the fight?
Tybalt.
Who killed Mercutio?
Tybalt
Who killed Tybalt?
Romeo.
According to the Prince’s decree, who should be punished?
Tybalt, but Romeo killed him so the punishment has already
been given to the person who started the fight.
What punishment does the Prince give to Romeo?
Romeo will be banished or exiled or expelled from Verona. If
he is found within the walls of Verona then he will be executed within the hour
of being found.
Friday, May 20th:
3rd Period:
Today the following are due:
Act Two Open Book Test
Act Two Vocabulary and Literary Packets!
Act Two questions
How to correct your Romeo and Juliet test:
Example:
3. What form of verse did Shakespeare usually write in:
a. blank
You write the
question out (in its entirety) and then write the correct answer in its
entirety. You then staple the
correction to the original test.
Went over Act 3, Scene 1
If you have any questions about Act 3, please go to the 9th
Grade blog, and click on the link for Romeo and Juliet, Act 3.
Read Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, 4, and 5 - go over on Tuesday, May 24th
Period 1:
Today the following are due:
Act Two Open Book Test
Act Two Vocabulary and Literary Packets!
Act Two questions
Please redo all the work you receive today that is below a
“B”.
How to correct your Romeo and Juliet test:
Example:
3. What form of verse did Shakespeare usually write in:
a. blank
You write the
question out (in its entirety) and then write the correct answer in its
entirety. You then staple the
correction to the original test.
Act 2, Scene 2 Questions:
Page 788
Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Please incorporate the question in your answer.
Went over Act 3, Scene 1
Read Act 3, Scene 2
Went over
Read Act 3, Scene 3 – go over on Tuesday
Everything you need to know about Act 3 can be found on the
link Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 on the 9th
Grade English blog.
Monday, August 29th: 
